• Built 233kW solar array which will offset more than 50% of our energy use at one of our pumping plants.
• Received PG&E "Clean and Green" award for "demonstrated leadership in the area of energy efficiency and environmentally progressive business practices."
• Averaged two major energy efficiency projects per year, such as lighting changes to utilize the latest in fluorescent technology, numerous upgrades of compressed air systems and improvements in high volume air conditioning equipment.
• Conserved over 7.8 mW, enough power saved to provide the energy needs of over 4,000 homes.
• Achieved 59,436,000 kWh in energy savings, which equates to removal of 24,000 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere.
• Emission controls installed on carrot harvesters.
• Conversion of metal halide lamps containing lead to lead-free fluorescent tubes.
• Recycling fluorescent tubes to prevent landfill contamination.
• Recycling 46,000 pounds of paper per year.
• Enrolling all of our forklifts in the California Air Resources Board Large Spark Ignition (LSI) Program.
  1. This will reduce emissions by retiring older gas powered lifts and replacing them with either energy efficient propane models or electric lifts.
• Diesel Engine retrofits
  1. Replacing diesel engines with electrical motors.
  2. Reduce pollution.

• We currently recycle our used stretch wrap, bags and other plastic films.
• We recycle our cardboard boxes from supplies or damaged produce cartons.
• We have begun working with a group that is able to use waxed cartons to make fire logs and have sent them old damaged and obsolete waxed cartons.
• We recycle our irrigation drip tape We have programs to recycle office products such as printer/fax machine/copier toner containers, batteries and paper products.
• We recycle both scrap stainless and carbon steel.

• Our 'clamshell' packages in the greenhouse are made from recycled plastics.
• We are supportive of shipping to customers in RPC's (recyclable plastic containers).
• We have switched to a new type of stretch wrapper that allows us to use less stretch wrap and eliminate the use of cardboard corner boards on most pallets of vegetables.

• Integrated Pest Management – Natural methods of controlling pests.
• Use of drip tape for irrigation which saves water compared with sprinkler or furrow irrigation.
• Use of compost in order to limit the amount of fertilizer.

Wastewater:

• Waste water treatment and settling ponds allow us to reuse process water for irrigation.

Vehicles:

• Many of our vehicles are 'flex fuel' vehicles that can use gasoline or ethanol.
• Our irrigation crews use ATV's rather that trucks which use far less fuel.